ʿĀdil Shāhī Dynastydynasty(1489–1686), ruling family of the kingdom of BijāpurBijapur, India, one of the two principal successor states to the Muslim sultanate of Bahmanī in the Deccan. The dynasty strongly resisted the Mughal advance southward in the 17th century until it was extinguished by the Indian emperor Aurangzeb with the capture of Bijāpur Bijapur in 1686.

It was named after its founder, Yūsuf ʿĀdil

Shāh

Shah, said to have been a son of the Ottoman sultan Murad II. He introduced

a form of Islām

Shīʿism but practiced toleration. At the end of his reign, Goa was lost (1510) to the Portuguese. After constant wars, a coalition of

Bijāpurand

Bijapur with the three other Muslim Deccan states—Golconda,

Bīdar

Bidar, and Ahmadnagar—overthrew the Hindu Vijayanagar empire

, threatening from the south, at

at the Battle of Talikota in 1565.

The dynasty’s greatest period was during the reign of Ibrāhīm ʿĀdil Shāh Shah II (1579–1626), who extended his frontier as far south as Mysore and was a skillful administrator and a generous patron of the arts. He reverted to the Sunnite Sunni form of Islām Islam but remained tolerant of other religions, including Christianity. Thereafter, increasing weakness permitted Mughal encroachment and the successful revolt of the Marāthā ŚivajīMaratha king Shivaji, who killed the Bijāpur Bijapur general Afzal Khān Khan and scattered his army. The dynasty left a tradition of cosmopolitan culture and artistic patronage , whose architectural remains are to be seen in the capital city of BijāpurBijapur.